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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Effective leaders in this space have the ability to optimize supply chain operations, streamline processes, and identify cost-saving opportunities. A well-rounded and comprehensive set of leadership requirements can be defined by involving stakeholders from finance, operations, and other relevant areas.

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Is the Customer Always Right? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is the customer really always right? Much like you have performance reviews for your employees you should conduct an analysis of how your customers are performing.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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The Secrets Of Great Scaling

Strategy Driven

If your customers become dissatisfied with your performance, you’re going to have a very hard time retaining them, and continuing to grow at a healthy rate. Think About Finances. Photo courtesy of Pixabay. As your business expands at a fast rate, there are a range of financial implications which all need to be taken into consideration.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Essentially, tactical performance is how well you stick to your plan, and adaptive performance is how well you diverge from your plan.

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Is It Time to Quit Your Job?

Harvard Business Review

If you think your manager wouldn't be open to that kind of discussion, Gulati advises looking at your last two annual performance reviews. "Do If your performance is stagnating despite your best efforts, you might want to quit before further reputational damage is done," he says.

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business Review

Their operating environment changes in a way they don’t recognize, or they take on a project that they believe is within their capability but isn’t. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex. Consequently, the finance group, the risk organization, and the nonexecutive directors do most of this work.